Whitepaper Series on Next Generation Justice Platform, Paper 3: The Legal Framework

Abstract

This is the final paper of the whitepaper series for a next generation justice platform, which address the need for and lays down the components of a legal framework to implement the next generation justice platform. The current regulatory landscape of the justice system in India is difficult for citizens to navigate and is planned around physical processes and physical record-keeping, which hampers digitisation initiatives. This paper proposes that the decision to adopt a platform should be accompanied by a legal framework that would enable a mandatory creation of a platform and migration to it. The provisions of the legal framework will ensure justiciability of online procedures and features of the platform. A broad data protection framework is needed to address privacy issues that may arise from the enormous data the platform would hold, keeping in mind the basic rule of open courts in India.